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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Goose egg.
 1. In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. [Slang]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 goose egg
      n : a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
          ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
          done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all
          for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
           nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
           naught, zero, zilch, zip]